Clive Cussler - A Great Storyteller

There are great writers (think beautiful, creative sentences and paragraphs, thoughtful intriguing characters) and great storytellers (think fascinating story subjects, larger-than-life characters, dramatic action, riveting tales that prevent you from sleeping). Great writers and great storytellers are not mutually exclusive concepts. But writers often fall into just one of those camps.

Clive Cussler was in the second category. His stories entertained millions. And all writers who pen stories with an adventure component probably owe him a debt.

Cussler wrote a couple of dozen bestsellers and - with multiple co-writers who were eager to join him in his writing projects - he directed the writing of several dozen more novels.

Cussler died February 24th, 2020. He was 88. The world of entertainment writing has lost an icon.